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After the devastating events of the Titan Games finale, Karalevine Ruzz and her Starseed family find themselves desperate to get their fellow Starseed back from the clutches of the vicious Arianyte Empire. Meanwhile, the prince, Malakyte Ardeen, hasn't stopped his relentless pursuit, determined to make Kara his no matter the cost. Haunted by the certain doom of her fellow Starseed, Kara makes a fateful decision to enter the lethal Titan Gamesa merciless competition where the stakes are life and death.

What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Drawing upon real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created.

From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.

The truth is out: Linda and Alec now know who Impostor Alec is. They just didn't expect him to be so...close. Close enough, Alec fears, to win back Linda's heart. How do you move on from the love of your life? Not only is Impostor Alec struggling to pretend he doesn't have feelings for Linda anymore, he's lost without the trust of one of the most important people in his life: Alec.

Written by an expert on the new age of Internet networking and a practicing dentist who owns a multi-million-dollar Texas practice, Industry Influencer helps listeners unlock “Triangle of Genius” to turn side hustles into lucrative and meaningful online engagements.

He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by scandal. Now, he rules his own “country”—an area of western territory where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own must pay “taxes,” collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America’s leaders and expand his empire.

The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities is a collection of fourteen essays by the historians at Emerging Civil War, and includes a Foreword by acclaimed alternate history writer Peter G. Tsouras.

When life supplies 11-year-old Tommy Grant with some unfavorable circumstances intruding on his otherwise tranquil life in 1980s Ohio, he retreats into the spell-binding Order of Cosmic Champions. When he discovers that the largely successful animated program and toy line is holding a nationwide "Create-A-Character" contest where applicants submit their action figure designs, Tommy knows he has to enter as surely as he knows his own name. But when Tommy's character design fails to win the contest, he finds his world crumbling from all sides.

Marketing leaders are suffocating under the weight of more data, more choices, and more to-dos. And there’s no technology or tool that will save us. The good news? We can save ourselves. The Monster That Ate Marketing details the principles, practices, and mindset that marketing leaders can use to bring focus and fun back to their work. Based on lessons learned over decades as a start-up founder and marketing consultant, Jeff Reynolds provides practical ways of thinking about—and designing—a high-impact, modern marketing department.

Thrust from her home out in The Elements, having escaped from the labs of The Tyson Estates and now free from the horrors of Sub Terra, Annie with Hutch and their infant daughter, Eden, now find themselves in a world they never knew existed, Atlantica. An underwater civilization, Atlantica was built by seven friends who believed Calvin Tyson’s theory of extreme climate changes due to a drastic shift of the Earth’s axis. It was to be a temporary base of operations until scientists could find a way for their people to survive out in the harsh ruins of the Earth after The Shift.

Author Timothy Galvin, MSW, was a couples counselor for more than forty years and has been married to the same person for even longer. Drawing from these professional and personal experiences, he wrote Men in Marriage to discuss the most common issues men experience in marriage and share the six actions every man could begin doing today to become a caring contributor to the vibrancy of his marriage.

This book is the story of a remarkable bird, the golden-collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus) of Panama. Males of this species perform one of the most elaborate, physically complex, and noisy courtship displays of any animal on the planet. Barney A. Schlinger delves into the specialized neurons, muscles, bones, and hormonal systems underlying the manakin's unique courtship behavior, creating a rich life-history account that integrates field observations and evolutionary biology with behavioral ecology, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and general ornithology.

Challenging the conventional wisdom of data-driven decision-making, marketing professors and behavioral scientists Bart De Langhe and Stefano Puntoni argue that many analytics efforts flounder because data analyses are disconnected from the decisions to be made. In their important book, they offer a new approach they call decision-driven analytics. Counterintuitively, they argue that the key to making good decisions with data is to start by putting data in the background.

In this book, Friedman addresses how views about work and family have changed; why men and women have different reasons for opting out of parenthood; how family has been redefined; what choices we face in our social and educational policy; and how organizations and individuals—especially men—can spur cultural change.

Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians—on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one hundred years later, America is once again grappling with issues that would have been familiar to the Little Flower, as he was affectionately known. It's time to bring back LaGuardia, argues historian and journalist Terry Golway, to remind us all what an effective municipal officer (as he preferred to call himself) can achieve . . .

A young, closeted TV newscaster tries to make his way during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Based on the true-life story of three-time Emmy award-winning anchorman and best-selling author turned actor, Mark Pettit.